Can Garcia end run of Major disappointments?

OPEN champion Stewart Cink well remembers the moment Sergio Garcia made his first impression at a major championship, 10 years ago in the PGA Championship at Medinah.

Cink was enthralled, as was everybody else, when he saw the 19-year-old Spaniard, dubbed ‘El Nino’ gallop up Medinah’s 16th fairway having slashed his ball, eyes shut, from behind a tree and scissor kick in mid-air as he strained to see it reach the green.

“I played a lot with Sergio,” Cink recalled as he prepared for today’s renewal at Hazeltine National Golf Club near Minneapolis, “including 10 years ago at the PGA when he hit the shot with his eyes closed.